Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-16

AkNTING ON HIMSELF WITH nCRopIA
Snow, you see," said Dr. schaener, the micro
scoplst, as he held before STAB reporters eyes
little piece Of red something he had taken from Q
Dottie OF alcohol. 'You see, II the cannibals had
eaten him he would have killed the whole tribe.
But t was not the tichinosis that killed him.
he died from some other cause" The thing held
IN the Doctors hand was piece Of the diaphragm
OF man who died at the insane asylum, and it
was completely filled with trichin1. They could
be easily seen with the naked eye.
On table stood that inquisitive little instru.
ment with which scientists discover microbes,
bacteria, infusoria, fungi, and all those DEATH
oeaung invis1bies. before which human nature
STANDS In awe. The reporter learned that upon
the glass slide under this little instrument there
m mignS ee =, assembled in fu war paint enough
thought that science has discovered that sugar,
were vehicles in which these terrible little
nave nee passage into the blood OF their
s1l Iooo uhtll congress had passed . law for the
DETERMINATION OF MICROBES.
The doctor is in constant intercourse with these
little terrors, and gets into their secrets. He
studies their habits. and is familiar with their
mode OF thought. He is on terms Of easy familiar
"Is it really very dangerous to eat bread and
sugar. or to drink waterf" the scribe asked him.
Mites are sometimes found ia sugar They
only in sugar that has not been rsfined, was the
repiy In refined sugar you eat their dead bodies.
They are often dreadfully mutlated by the refining
N all directions. As to their hurting you, let me
say, will eat just as many mites as you win
Dring along; It would take many millions TO make
gooo meal l am very skeptical about the al
legged microbes OF disease. For that reason have
not much faith in Pasteur I fail to find this NIL
flour, or anything Of that sort. they come with
decay. The life that is found in unrefned sugars
Is more Injurious to the human body than are the
utlie SklpPerS that are found in cheese Linn
burger and other "high" cheeses abound In
microbes produced BY partial decay, but
develop In and remain in the human body. do
not mink they are constructed for that.
TRYING IT ON HIMSELF.
"You may remember" said the doctor, "that a
learned gentleman OF my profession allowed some
water to stay on raw meat In the sun for two days.
terra He then drank it to see If the bacteria
would get into his blood. Then at certain periods
he took drop Of his blood and examined it under
the microscope. At first he found one microbe in
MS blood, then two and then more, &C., 30 he
came to the conclusion that they went at once
into the blood after being taken into the stomach.
further tried the experiment. have q strong
stomach. ] drank water prepared in the same
million bacteria. AT no time did any Of them
pass into my blood. fear not the deadly microbe
FRESH FOOD AND FRESH WATER.
"There is nothing in fresh food and fresh water.
The life that is to be found in water is not inurf-
GUS Stale water and decayed food are bad.
These microbes are vegetable, not animal
live naturally upon the animal organism. Raw
pork Is a thing to be Stunned. The chances are
That there are some hichi'a9 in any piece OF pork
you may come across. A vast number of hogs
have trichin0sis. The hog is terrible breeder Of
disease; Besides being responsible for trseht.
nosis, it distributes tape-w0rms. 1t is a great
been fed on the onal of q slaughter-house,
as have seen done in this District. 1t Is
Spreading disease, Just as a farmer would
They eat small particles of tape-wOrmS from the
entrafls OF other animals, and the eggs develope
very rapidly, and may be planted in the human
body by the eating CT the hog flesh.
From two joints Of a tape-wOrm have Seen
under the glass, myriads of these eggs flowing
out. handle most any poisonous thing without
fear, but am always careful to wash my hands in
alcohol or carboltc acid after handling any part of
tape-W0rm. These are the things that belong with
Ing to fear from microbes that scientists speak of
In Iru1t, flour and sugar, &C.
IMPURITIES IN WATER
81 have formerly drunk water out OF the canal I
would not do it now, but it would not be the ordi-
nary impurities in water that would deter me.
The ordinary slop or filth that might be thrown
into the river may be very disgusting, but there
would not necessarily any disease come from it.
Disease would result only from diseased matter
TYPHOID fever might be spread through the water
II the Stops from the Sck-rOOm, containing the
germs OF the fever, were thrown into the water
No one knows how many miles Of water it would
millions of fish eggs in the liver above the aoue
duct. The chances would be that some Of them
would find their way through the water-pipe into
'.But to sum up, microbes are not found In fresh
food, and they aren't such terrible things, any
how"